Dear Sir

at length arrived Mr Macgovan’s parcel for which the poor engraver & I are much obliged to you.

I am vastly pleased with yr booksellers. printing these little old tracts; I assure you I will puff them off.

Doctor Webster is most obliging. if he will be so good as to draw up a concise account of his excellent plan. It will be a great obligation.1 I have the acts of parlement but do not understand the affair well enough to do it. I beg my best compliments though unknown to him.

I am Dr Sir in much haste yrs

T Pennant

Novr 12th 1773.

Mr Paton

at the Custom house


Mr Paton

at the Custom house


Editorial notes
1. Possibly a reference to the Church of Scotland Minister Alexander Webster, author of An account of the number of people in Scotland in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five (1755).